NYU Experiential SuperComputing CollaborationNSF MRI Award #1626098

The NYU Holodeck is a National Science Foundation MRI Track 2 Development project (NSF award # 1626098) that will create an immersive, collaborative, virtual/ physical research environment providing unparalleled tools for research collaborations, intellectual exploration, and creative output.

To prototype the transition from projection to functional AR, MR and VR simulations, our interdisciplinary team will develop an instrument and educational environment that facilitates enticing research and creates an experiential supercomputing infrastructure that empowers students, faculty, and researchers to develop new knowledge and disseminate powerful new integrated, multimodal tools and techniques.

The NYU Holodeck will be an open source networked instrument linking facilities at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing NYU-X Nursing Informatics Lab at 433 1st Avenue, NYU-X,), Media Research Lab (MRL) in Washington Square, and Media and Games Network (MAGNET) in Brooklyn to create a networked collaboration that can be readily and broadly extended and disseminated to national and international research and educational communities.

Our goal is to create and generate rich actualizing environments to support research and discover new paradigms.

NYU Collaborators

Dr. Win BurlesonAssociate Professor focusing on educational technologies, informatics, bioengineering design, simulation, innovation, and STEM in the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and affiliated with Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Dr. Ken PerlinProfessor in the Department of Computer Science at NYU, founding director of the Media Research Lab at NYU, the Director of the Games for Learning Institute, and a member of MAGNET and founding director of the Media Research Laboratory and director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology.

Dr. Jan PlassPaulette Goddard chair in Digital Media and Learning Sciences in the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, director Educational Communication and Technology programs, co-director Games for Learning Institute and founding director of CREATE Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technology in Education.

Technical Expertise: cognitive and emotional aspects of information design, and interaction design of simulations and educational games for science education and second language acquisition. He will provide expertise in educational technology and learning science, team interaction and integration. http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Jan_Plass

Dr. Claudio SilvaProfessor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU, Head of Disciplines, Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP). His degrees are in mathematics and computer science.

Technical Expertise: intersection of visualization and geometric computing, and analysis of urban data. He will provide development support for multimodality visualization and analytic tools. http://cusp.nyu.edu/people/claudio-t-silva/

Dr. Jeremy RoweSenior Research Scientist, Nursing Informatics, NYU. Emeritus Executive Associate Director School of Computing and Informatics, Co-Director Decision Theater and Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling at Arizona State University.

Technical Expertise: 3D modeling and scientific visualization. He will provide expertise in design, development and integration experience from ASU Decision Theater, 3D modeling and visualization and educational technologyhttp://www.nyu-x.org/

Henry Fuchs Prof. Computer Science; Founding Dir., Being There Center, University of North Carolina; Fellow of (AAAS) and (ACM). Ken Goldberg Prof. Ind. Eng. and Oper. Research (IEOR), College of Eng.; Dir., Automation Sciences Research Lab; Co-Dir., Center for Automation and Learning for Medical Robotics; Co-Founder Berkeley’s Center for New Media.

External CollaboratorsAcademic Aalborg University Copenhagen Arizona State University Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Drexel University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard Graduate School of Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology North Carolina State University Northwestern University Queens University RMIT University Stony Brook University The University of Sydney Tufts University University of California Berkeley University of California Irvine University of California Santa Barbara University of California Santa Cruz University of Denver University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of North Carolina, Charlotte University of Southern California Vanderbilt